In her March 30 ruling, Enquist acknowledged that “the voting procedure may have violated the secret ballot provision” of Colorado’s Sunshine Law.

But she ruled in Arvada’s favor because the two-year-old law does not “expressly confer standing on every citizen for a violation of that provision” and that Arvada resident Russell Weisfield — who filed the lawsuit — couldn’t prove that he was personally injured by council’s hidden votes.

The lawsuit asked for Jerry Marks to be removed from the District 1 council seat and another election held. Arvada City Council members installed Marks on Jan. 10 when they marked unsigned pieces of paper four times to eliminate other candidates.

When Marks was the only finalist left after four other candidates had been eliminated, council voted openly to appoint him.

Spain came under repeated attack starting Thursday in what authorities called linked terrorist incidents, when a driver swerved a van into crowds in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, killing more than a dozen people and injuring scores of others. Early Friday, an attempted attack unfolded in a town down the coast

If there’s one superhero character whose rise might be most tied to the events of World War II, it is Captain America, who emerged from the minds of legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and sprung forth from an iconic 1941 debut cover on which Cap smacks Hitler right in the kisser.

A customer dining at Washington’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.”